Almost three months after a 'threat note' sparked a hijacking scare aboard a Mumbai-Delhi Jet Airways flight, the National Investigation Agency on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against businessman Birju Salla for endangering the lives of everyone on board the aircraft.

The chargesheet has been filed in the NIA Special Court at Ahmedabad under sections 3(1), 3(2)(a) and 4(b) of the Anti-Hijacking Act, 2016.

The NIA investigation found that on October 30, 2017, Salla was a Business Class passenger on the Jet Airways Flight 9W339 that was flying from Mumbai to New Delhi. He deliberately prepared a 'threat note' in English and Urdu and placed it in the tissue paper box of the toilet near Business Class. It was later found by a flight attendant, sparking a mid-air hijacking scare. The plane had to make an emergency landing at Ahmedabad airport.

The NIA claims that it has sufficient oral, documentary, technical, forensic and material evidence against Salla to prove he committed the crime and his actions jeopardised the safety of the passengers and crew members on board.

The case is the first to be tried under the amended Anti- Hijacking Act, which came into force in July 2017 and has very stringent provisions for violators.

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